The Scream star said that he was expecting a story to come out claiming that he cheated on Cox, but he maintained: "I was faithful to my wife for 11 years."

He added: "We had been separated for a while, and we didn't want to make that public so it wouldn't be a big deal, but we also had an agreement that we could, you know, date other people… Somebody sold a story, and I didn't want to get labelled as a cheater."

Arquette previously told Howard Stern that he had slept with former cocktail waitress Jasmine Waltz since the split.

"I did have sex with her one time, maybe twice," he revealed. "My sexual encounter made me feel pretty manly."